In a remote corner of northern Mexico two furniture designers have built their dream ranch

The well-travelled design duo behind the artisanal furniture brand Casamidy have built a ranch in a remote area of northern Mexico, in which their handmade pieces mingle with family heirlooms and objects collected over time.

Characterful furniture and clever combinations of colour in an 18th-century house in Bath

A glamorous London home restored with salvaged materials by Retrouvius

In this Victorian house in London, Maria Speake – House & Garden’s Interior Designer of the Year – has cleverly reorganised the layout and made inventive use of the salvaged materials for which her company Retrouvius is known.

Rita Konig's deeply comfortable farmhouse in County Durham

Since finishing the renovation of her husband's farmhouse in County Durham, our columnist Rita Konig has seen the colourful interiors come to life in ways she could not have imagine at the project's start.

The extraordinary story of a contemporary home built in the ruins of a medieval castle

A 17th-century farmhouse renovated for open-plan comfort

A 17th-century farmhouse in Hampshire presented ample creative opportunities for interior-design duo Robinson van Noort, who have blended its period elements with open-plan contemporary comfort in the two-storey barn attached to one side

Working from Home: a spare bedroom and living room become offices for Salvesen Graham

A Cornish cottage decked out in nautical blue and white by Paolo Moschino

Designer Paolo Moschino transformed this fisherman's cottage in north Cornwall for his clients, raising the ceilings, reconfiguring the layout and creating a light-filled, fresh interior inspired by the colours of the sea.

A bamboo beach house in Mustique designed by Veere Grenney

A 19th century London house that oozes relaxed sophistication

With the help of interior designer Nicola Harding, a couple in London has united three flats in a nineteenth-century house to create a family home, using atmospheric colours and a characterful mix of furniture.

A modern Long Island barn with interiors by Veere Grenney

Douglas Mackie's French country retreat in the Languedoc

On a rocky hillside in the Languedoc, with its fierce summer heat and torrential autumn storms, this rough stone farmer barn is now a comfortable retreat from their busy London lives for its interior-designer owner and his partner.

A couple living a life less ordinary as tenant farmers of a 17th-century farmhouse

Becoming tenants of Woolhouse, a 17th-century farmhouse in West Sussex, inspired Ian Pearce and Paulo Standing to develop their multi-faceted business Hector and the Fox, which celebrates the simple pleasures of their country lif

Life in an art-filled former palace in Italy, accessible only by foot

In an ancient Italian town perched on a rocky outcrop and accessible only by foot, Paolo Crepet and Cristiana Melis, the residents of an art-filled former palace, have created a guesthouse that is truly one of a kind

Kelly Hoppen's London home

The homes of writer Umberto Pasti in Milan and Tangier bear witness to a life artfully lived

Although he has homes in Milan and Tangier, it is Rohuna, his house in the Moroccan countryside, that epitomizes the diversity of Umberto Pasti’s interests – including gardening, writing and collecting beautiful things.